1689Apol. Failures G. Walker’s Acct. Siege of Derry 26While the Hand of the Church is preparing Mandates, with a Present of Leaden Padderines to be sent Post by the French and Irish to Saint Patrick in Purgatory.

1762O. GoldsmithCitizen of World 19 Dublin. We hear that there is a benevolent subscription on foot among the nobility and gentry..,in order to assist Black and All Black, in his contest with the Padderen mare.

1787A. O’LearyDefence 31 The Marriage of Figaro represented on the French Stage did not raise more humour..than did their extraordinary marriage of the Paddereen and the Common Prayer-book, in the diocese of Cloyne.

1833W. CarletonTraits & Stories III. A. 314, I could..have her thumpin’ her breast, an’ countin her Padareens in no time.

1849S. LoverRory O’More 107 Padhereens is the name the Irish give to their beads, upon which they count the number of Paters (or Pathers) they repeat, and hence the name.

1918P. MacGillGlenmornan viii. 199 He hasn’t been in at the Paidreen one night, at all.